GIVENS LOGISTICS NAMED TOPS IN INDUSTRY

CHESAPEAKE, VA — July, 2005 – Givens Logistics has been ranked among North America's top one hundred 3PL (Third Party Logistics) providers by Inbound Logistics magazine, a leading publication of the demand-driven logistics industry.

Over the last decade, manufacturers, retailers, wholesale distributors, and government alike have increasingly come to depend upon 3PLs to ship, warehouse, and distribute their goods. This trend has been driven by escalating fuel costs, in-house capacity shortfalls, increasing security concerns, and tracking technologies that seem to change on a daily basis. Owing to their total focus on goods management and distribution efficiencies, 3PLs can offer their customers service, which is superior to that they can achieve themselves and at less cost. The industry anticipates its clientele will spend 68 billion dollars with it over 2005.

Givens Logistics offers a full spectrum of logistics services from full intermodal shipping (air, rail, ship, etc.) to LTL (Less Than a Truckload) distribution. Its inventory management services even include product modification right at its warehouse facilities – thus eliminating the need to return goods to manufacturers if changes have to made to them before they can be distributed to retailers, for example.

Keith Helton, Vice President, said, "We have a forty-eight year track record of providing dependable, quality and accuracy-oriented service that has now made us a major player in the demand-driven logistics industry."

Established in 1957 as the Givens Trucking Company, Givens Logistics is now Chesapeake, Virginia's largest private employer and operates a facility in Seattle, as well. Notable among Givens clients are American Honda, Canon, Volvo Penta, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Lockheed Martin, Eastman Kodak, Samsung, and Cummins Engine Company.